Developing a robust in-house Cloud Computing infrastructure.
ARGSYSTEMS LLC. can help your organization better utilize its existing technology infrastructure for business transformation using Cloud Computing. While existing computing capacity in many organizations has been determined to be excessive, servers virtualization technology and servers consolidation have brought remedy to datacenter over-provisioning crisis.
Cloud Computing goes further than virtualization with its automated provisioning model. It provides on-demand scaling of computing capacity thus opening your organization to greater innovation capability. Whether by improving the quality and efficiency of technology delivery services, engineering new processes, introducing a better mix of new applications, leveraging on a high performance computing pool for research and analysis, or just bringing better Web 2.0-style collaboration technology to enrich users and customers with innovative services. A fully open source private cloud can give your organization tremendous advantages.
Improving the management of Cloud Computing can be readily achieved by deploying tools that for the most part find their origin in UNIX-powered data centers.
Eucalyptus framework
Eucalyptus is an Open Source framework for deploying a private cloud Computing infrastructure on your existing servers. It offers full compatibility with Amazon Web services Cloud Computing offerings. It is ideally deployed for customers who have a need for a mixed public/private cloud environment. For instance regulatory considerations may require your organization to assert very stringent data security policies forcing you to host the most critical portion of your infrastructure. The other portion of less critical services can be hosted on a public commercial cloud computing platforms.
The solutions that we propose are characterized by their high level of maturity and the critical-mass effect generated by their massive adoption world-wide for public, private, research, education etc… The On-Demand provisioning environment of Cloud Computing and the simplicity of engineering Linux-based software appliances reduces significantly your infrastructure Total Cost of Ownership.
The Datacenter 2.0 tools for infrastructure automation.
GNU/Linux
Eucalyptus Cloud computing framework
scalr capacity management
OpenQRM virtualisation integration
kvm
Xen
Configuration Management client/server: cfengine
Directory Servers: OpenLDAP, Fedora/CentOS Directory, Bind, NIS
Authentication Servers: Kerberos, NIS, LDAP
Time Servers: NTP
Network File Services: NFS, SAMBA, OpenAFS
Distributed Log monitoring: Scribe, Hadoop
Version Control: subversion, git
Automated Install: kickstart, FAI
Services Control & Monitoring: daemon tools supervise
